Here: http://wikipedia.wp.pl/
you will find a branded copy of Polish Wikipedia, launched today by Wirtualna Polska (wp.pl), an online portal which is a subsidiary of Telekomunikacja Polska (which in turn is a subsidiary of France Telecom) - a result of the recent Orange - WMF agreement. Visible changes: - skin is obviously different - no editing allowed - no source view - "Witamy w Wikipedii WP" - the banner says "Welcome to WP Wikipedia" - article history link points to the plwiki history page - no red links visible - "Copyright 1995-2009 Wirtualna Polska" notice at the bottom Official press release[1] (excerpts): "Wirtualna Polska has developed a special web portal that offers access to the selected information and services of Wirtualna Polska as well as Wikipedia articles in an innovative way. A combination of news articles presented within thematic services of Wirtualna Polska - informational, business, educational, technical, entertainment - with encyclopedic resources of Wikipedia enables Internet users to expand and update their knowledge." Bartłomiej Krawczyk, WP project manager, said [square brackets are mine]: "Wirtualna Polska consists of tens of specialised Web portals, cooperating with the most important news outlets countrywide and abroad. This makes Wirtualna Polska a huge source of information. That potential combined with the current offering of Wikipedia, containing over 633 thousand articles enables Internet use to a wholly new extent. (...) " "We have limited the possibility of accessing editing options [of Wikipedia] because not every Internet user is interested in adding their own articles to the encyclopedia or in updating existing ones. What is important is that all changes and new definitions in [ Polish ] Wikipedia are visible on the Wirtualna Polska website. Wikipedia.wp.pl is an example of a new business model. It combines expansion of the content of [ Wirtualna Polska's ] portal through a direct connection with Wikipedia articles with the financial support for the Wikimedia Foundation, including advertisement revenue." [2] There is also a mention about two-way cross-linking of the WP and Wikipedia content on the WP website. It even goes on to say "articles in the free encyclopedia will be linking to the related WP stories". A press release stresses out that all advertising on the site has been specifically approved by the Wikimedia Foundation. One of the news websites has published a note titled "Wirtualna Polska has >>acquired<< Wikipedia" and specifically mentions the lack of editing possibility as well as the advertising that might be put on the site[3]. [1] http://media.netpr.pl/PressOffice/PressRelease.149390.po [2] http://webinside.pl/artykul.php?id=6275 -- << Marcin Cieslak // sa...@saper.info >>
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